Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition outlines why Trudeau’s climate plans will cause economic hardship in Canada, and will do nothing measurable to improve the global climate.
TORONTO (November 13, 2024) – Canadians for Sensible Climate Policy and The Heartland Institute have published a new book called Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition. This 88-page book is a timely counter to the “Net Zero” push in Canada, and outlines how that goal is unachievable by 2050, scientifically unnecessary, and will ensure a lower standard of living for all Canadians with no appreciable benefit to the environment.
The book was written by Canadian Ron Davison, P.Eng., president of The Friends of Science Society, and American H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., director of the Arthur C. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank based in Illinois. The book is organized to be an easy-to-use reference for journalists, teachers, students, and the general public who are interested in facts about the climate and energy policy. Contributing authors were Tom Harris, Robert Lyman, Paul MacRae, and John Zacharias.
Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition covers, among other topics and controversies:
- the obstacles to Canada ever achieving Net Zero
- the technical impracticality and high cost of carbon capture projects
- the problems with intermittent “renewable” energy like wind and solar, including the destruction of land and wildlife
- the fact that electric vehicles are not “zero emissions” vehicles, and exploit workers in the world’s poorest countries
- the impact energy and economic sacrifices by Canadians will have on global carbon dioxide emissions and global temperatures
- the fact that great reduction in use of fossil fuels by developed nations would impose on about 3 billion inhabitants of poor countries starvation from lack of nitrogen fertilizers
- what are the true main drivers of global climate change
- the fact that the data do not support the claims that wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, and tropical cyclones are getting worse
- the fact that the oceans are not “acidifying,” nor are they rising at dangerous levels
- the benefits of the use of fossil fuels to humanity around the globe
You can review a copy of the book (not for public distribution) at this link. You can review the graphics, charts, and references with hyperlinks at this link. Hard copies of the book can be purchased from the Friends of Science Society.
The following statements from authors and editors of the book Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition maybe used for attribution. If you would like more information or to schedule an interview, please refer to their contact information below, or contact Jim Lakely, VP & Director of Communications at The Heartland Institute: media@heartland.org.
“My hope is that Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition will, in parallel with the goals of the Canadians for Sensible Climate Policy and The Heartland Institute, lead to some open, civil, and much needed dialogue on the realities associated with the unnecessary, unattainable, ideological drive to Net Zero and its associated energy transition. This book does have a Canadian focus, but the fundamentals discussed can be applied across the planet. We cannot afford to keep spending debt-financed taxpayer’s dollars just to slow the projected temperature rise a century from now by an unmeasurably small amount. We need to start focusing on the financial and energy security issues we already face and quit exacerbating them.”
Ron Davison, P. Eng.
President
Friends of Science Society
Lead author, Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition
“This book provides a fact-based refutation of the false claims that climate change poses an existential threat, that restricting fossil fuel development and use in Canada will minimize future harm from climate change, and that Canada’s present climate policies will benefit the nation and its people.
“The key takeaway from this timely, fact-based book is that the Trudeau government’s climate policies are all pain for Canadian’s pocketbooks, lifestyles, and freedom, and no gain for the environment.”
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.
Director
Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy
The Heartland Institute
“Many leading companies in Canada’s financial sector fully support, at least in public, the government’s quest for Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050. However, in doing so, they ignore the economic damage Net Zero will cause to their clients’ savings and investments—damage that this book documents in detail. Asset managers and others in the financial community are custodians of the nation’s savings and invest-able wealth. If they do their fiduciary duty, a basic cost-benefit analysis of Net Zero will quickly reveal that the climate and environmental ‘benefits’ do not remotely justify the estimated costs of trillions of dollars and negate the Net Zero policy. Consequently, a prudent approach might be to abandon Net Zero at 2050 when providing investment advice to clients.”
John Zacharias
Director
Canadians for Sensible Climate Policy
The Heartland Institute is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1984 and headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Heartland is known globally as the leading think tank promoting skepticism about catastrophic human-caused climate change. For more information, visit our website.
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News.
Perfect fit for Cuba.
Well …..Justin Castro believes in it …..
😉
The picture is inaccurate. For Justine to be Net Zero, there would have to be some positives to offset all the negatives
CAGW is not science based, CO2 is not the control knob for our climate, wind, solar and storage are not a substitute for fossil fuel and nuclear, EVs are not a substitute for ICE vehicles, net zero is a worthless unnecessary goal that will do nothing to change the average global temperature, end of story. Time to move on.
When I see “ICE,” I have to check the context to see if it’s the “internal combustion engine” or “Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
Also never forget that CO2 is a harmless trace gas absolutely essential for all life on this planet.
And whether CO2 leads to trivial rises in temperature or vice versa (more likely), more CO2 and a trivial rise in temperature (mostly high latitude night time winter temperatures) have been hugely beneficial to everyone. (Except Soros, Gates, Guttieres and thousands of other scammers.)
Facts? Facts? We don’t need no stinking facts. /sarc–in case it’s not obvious.
So-called ‘virtue-signalling’ on stilts, the overwhelmingly most valuable Canadian export category is mineral fuels, oils, distillation products (143.43B US dollars) next is vehicles (63.68B US dollars) (2023 Trading Economics).
As with Australia, Norway etc. if their current governments genuinely believed fossil fuel use was destroying the planet they would immediately shut down their main export industries — fat chance.
It’s tragicomedy, such hilarious nonsense. 😂
Trudeau is one of the dominoes to fall to “populists/nationalists” next election cycle.
From your lips…
Extracted from the last section:
The notion of a “greenhouse effect” is misplaced. Accordingly, “greenhouse gasses” are a misnomer. These gasses are correctly described as EMR responsive gasses.
The fact that ocean surface cannot sustain more than 30C with the present atmospheric mass is clear proof that the “greenhouse effect” does not exist. All climate models have some ocean surface sustaining more than 30C at some point in the future (early ones predicted over 30C now) so all climate models are clearly not based on anything related to the physics of Earth’s atmosphere.
Any book that refers to “greenhouse gasses” impacting earth’s energy balance is dogma – with no scientific basis.
Nearly all three year olds would recognise that clouds reduce sunlight and the maximum day time temperature. They may not be aware that clouds are formed from ice particles. It is these ice particles that primarily regulate the radiative energy coming in and going out – NOT ‘greenhouse gasses”. Ice is the solid phase of water.
“These gasses are correctly described as EMR responsive gasses.”
Thank you !! 🙂
Or radiatively active gases.
“clouds are formed from ice particles”
More often formed from water vapour/droplets… except those really high clouds..
ps I still remember driving to work once and the clouds were basically at ground level.
Really eerie sensation as the wind screen was totally covered in water, wipers on full did nothing.. but there was no sound of rainfall.
You drove into a fog bank. Was it winter time?
As a member of the Friends of Science in Canada I am amazed at the work they do given the organization is funded by a small group of generally curious and skeptical individuals. Great work.
For example:
https://pipelineonline.ca/200-megawatt-bekevar-wind-energy-facility-joins-saskatchewan-grid-produces-less-than-a-phone-charger-on-opening-day/#/?playlistId=0&videoId=0
Because the Heartland Institute is involved the usual suspects will instantly decry American interference in Canadian matters. This will feature in CBC reports and to a lesser extent the major newspapers. The end result will be preaching to the choir. Nice try though.
Energy & Climate at a Glance: UK Edition
Can we *please* make that available before too much more is spent by Millipeed’s droids ?
They probably can’t be forced to face up to some factual forecasting or to a real world cost/benefit analysis, but something that flagged up their vast proposed costs of achieving so very little – something which was easy to access and to understand – could at least cause peak embarrassment.
Although I suppose the fact that the now thoroughly discredited HS2 project is still going and is planning to spend £100 million on a BAT SHED could mean that I might as well save my breath. The Millipeeds of this world seem to be answerable to no-one between elections.
There is no question that the federal government of Canada’s intentions to implement Net Zero will cause economic damage to all Canadians. The existing carbon tax has already done that.
However, this is not only about the supposed advantages of carbon dioxide reduction. It’s a battle over control of Canada’s natural resources. In Canada, natural resources like petroleum and natural gas are the jurisdiction of the Provinces, not the federal government. These resources are concentrated in two provinces: Alberta and Saskatchewan. They accrue the royalty payments for all oil and gas production.
Oil and gas exports are the largest value exports produced by the Canadian economy. That gives enormous economic and POLITICAL power to the governments that control them. So what is actually going on is a political war between the federal Liberals who usually control the federal government and the provincial Conservative parties who generally control the provincial governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This political struggle has been going on for more than 40 years.
Justin Trudeau is simply continuing his father’s economic war against Alberta and Saskatchewan.
This publication serves as a reminder why the Canadian Liberal Party will be out of power after the upcoming election. As it is it’s trailing badly in the polls, and as it keeps publicizing its asinine and unworkable plans for Net Zero, it undermines what little credibility it has left. All it’s doing now is dragging out its mandate for as long as possible; i.e., next October, though the longer it keeps feeding the public its unattainable Net Zero plans, the faster it’ll be gone.